TABLE OF CONTENTS Search the entire book using keyboard Ctrl + f key Foreword by George E. Garrison
Chapter 1: A NATIONAL IQ TEST 1
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O.J. basher/Fuhrman booster Vincent Bugliosi, who wrote the foreword to
Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood, is not the only O.J. expert
with an outsized IQ. For Jasper Garrison, a cyberspace investigator and
professional problem-solver with an IQ of 177, Bugliosi couldn’t be more
wrong. Garrison began his own search for truth
with little reason to believe that O.J. could have been framed "unless
the killer framed him. And only then if the killer was a man roughly
O.J.’s height and build with a long list of other improbable
qualifications. He had to have planned the frame as his primary goal
with many months to prepare. He had to be able to steer the
investigation in the direction he wanted it to go from the outset and to
lie convincingly in the national spotlight. He had to have ready access
to a light-colored sports utility vehicle and all of the collected
evidence. He had to wear size-12 shoes. He would have required military
training, a false alibi, a mammoth ego, a hell of a motive, and a
partner with smaller feet and a deeper voice. He would have to
know more than your average bear about history, psychology and the art
of illusion. And that, is the short list." Iago in Brentwood takes apart every
scrap of evidence against Simpson, from the DNA to the precise angle at
which his Bronco was parked and logically refutes it point by point. The
author supports his claims with police photos, dozens of illustrations
and direct quotes from trial transcripts and Fuhrman’s own words. He
weaves a tightly knit tapestry of
a killer cop obsessed with
Hollywood in general and O.J. in particular. It’s a picture of a
man willing to do anything to achieve wealth and fame at O.J.’s expense,
a man whose inspiration came from the principles of Nazi propaganda,
Shakespeare’s Othello and mainstream films including Ricochet
and all three movies in The Naked Gun series
Garrison makes a host of allegations that
sound like reckless invitations to be sued. Is he worried? "Nope," he
says, "It’s only libel if it ain’t so. The problem isn’t weak evidence
or a lack of it; it’s getting people to look at it after they’ve seen
the evidence against O.J. Most people know that first impressions count.
What they don’t know is how much. To them, "O.J.’s guilt is a
self-evident truth that no honest, rational human being can question.
That’s why most people are so violently opposed to giving two seconds of
thought to the idea that a nazi might have murdered a German woman and
her Jewish lover to set up the famous African-American father of the
woman’s two children… And that’s how Mark Fuhrman got away with murder." Jasper Garrison is also the
author of a sci-fi trilogy: The Random Factor, Doing Without, and
Messiah. His first non-fiction book, The Invisible Warriors,
was influential in President Clinton’s decision to send troops to
Bosnia. His latest nonfiction book, a companion to Iago, is
scheduled for publication in th
Othello in a Nutshell, 2013
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e Spring of 2001... A former combat
soldier, Garrison won the Army Commendation Medal in 1971 as a
demolition specialist with the elite 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam.
He is now a math model design leader at Ford Motor Company where he was
a key player in winning three Motor Trend Car of the Year awards. All of
his books can be read online without charge at www. smartfellowspress.com. |
MY THESIS: O.J. didnt do it; Fuhrman did. The quantity of evidence against Simpson is an invalid substitute for the quality thats missing. The quality of blood, fiber, timeline, tampering and contamination evidence presented by the defense justified reasonable doubt. But the equation that follows from the uncertainty is unequivocal: If it wasnt O.J., it had to have been a man with a laundry list of rare mental, physical and psychological attributes, specialized training, well-placed friends, and inside knowledge of the victims, the accused, and the California criminal justice system. He had to have a leading role in the investigation, a compelling motive for the killing and the framing, as well as opportunities to do both. That man exists. His name is Mark Fuhrman. MY METHODOLOGY: First, I gathered all of the data I could to draw a profile of the killer. His height, shoe size, and access to both crime scenes were givens. He had to have been able to dispose of some evidence that would have incriminated him, whoever he was, and leave behind evidence that appeared to incriminate only O.J. Simpson. When I thought I had enough facts to work with, I picked the most likely scenario and ran with it as long as additional facts supported it. No new discoveries made under close inspection adhered to the assumption that it was O.J. Even the dramatic photos of him wearing Bruno Maglis tell a dramatically different story when you learn more about them and the men who produced them late in the civil case. If O.J. was framed, he had to have enough in common with the killer to look guilty to the uncritical eye, which he did. Only the killer would have it all. Fuhrman had it all, right down to the unusual way he walked-with the toes of his size 12 shoes pointed straight ahead, like the bloody shoeprints left by the killer on Bundy. The more I looked into the possibility that it could not have been Fuhrman, the more evidence I found that it could have been no one else. MY MOTIVATION: In 1991, 1 began writing a novel set in a future America where history can be recorded on film retroactively. By 1997, when I was trying to finish the last book of what had become a trilogy, I hit a snag. All of the work Id done since the Bundy murders to get around the question of O.J.s guilt or innocence was becoming increasingly implausible. The men in my projection of the future who ran the American mass media the way Jefferson Davis would have run his, had to know whether O.J. was guilty or not. It had to make a difference in whether or not they told the truth about it. My problem was, I didnt know the truth myself. The standard of proof set down in the civil trial had become the medias license to be openly contemptuous of anyone who expressed doubt of O.J.s guilt. It made it easier for them to forgive Fuhrmans sins and to be increasingly supportive of him as the celebrity he had always wanted to be. If he was the man I thought he was, the implications for African-American men to start with-were chilling. If I could see it coming, so could he. Here was a pattern for image assassination that anyone with his foresight could see, and anyone with his ruthlessness could follow. If this was the path of the future, my trilogy wasnt fiction; it was a sneak preview. Most people who know my color assume they know my motive for accusing Fuhrman, an ex-Marine and Vietnam vet, of being a racist butcher of defenseless human beings. Those who know that my first nonfiction book was dedicated to Dennis Hammond, a Marine murdered in captivity by the Viet Cong, should know better. Ive spent decades of my life and tens of thousands of dollars to fight the "racist murderer" image of Vietnam vets which has been falsely applied to men like Dennis and me for 30 years. Few things are as important to me as changing that image, of getting the history books right, no matter how unpopular the verdict. --Jasper |